Martin,
I purchased a Compaq Presario F527US a couple of months ago and
installed FC7 on it. It worked fine for about a month, then things
went downhill. The machine started to have problems booting, many
times the computer would hang, and I had to e2fsck the disk many times
after it did finally boot.
I struggled with Compaq support to convince them that there was a
hardware issue. They didn't want to honor the warranty because I
installed linux on the computer, they were convince it was a linux
issue. I finally won the battle after I convinced them that windows
vista was having issues too.
Anyways, I was hoping you could share your experience with the Compaq
Presario F500. Is it working okay for you with FC7?
I found I had to use the following kernel boot options to get it to work
well:
irqpoll noapic
Do you have to use similiar kernel boot optoins?
I appreciate any insight you can offer as I hope to get my presario
repaired and working with linux again. I really like the laptop, works
great with linux (not so much with vista).
Thanks,
Jim
Martin Marques wrote:
Lars E. Pettersson escribió:
On 11/16/2007 02:35 PM, Martin Marques wrote:
The thing is that it boots OK asks for language and keyboard, then if
grub should be upgraded and gets blocked checking for dependencies at
26%.
This is a known problem, take a look at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372011 for some suggestions
on how to proceed.
Just found the bug report a few minutes ago.
I really can't believe that this bug past right by the RC of Fedora 8.
